Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Curriculum Overview 2022-2023
| Autumn 1 (7 weeks) | Autumn 2 (7 weeks) | Spring 1 (6 weeks) | Spring 2 (6 weeks) | Summer 1 (6 weeks) | Summer 2 (7 weeks) |
English 1 | Recount: Direct recount Writing from own experiences | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary fiction Egg Box Dragon | Entertain: Narrative Traditional Tales Goldilocks and the Three Bears Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel Rumpelstiltskin | Describe Description | Entertain: Narrative: Classic Literature A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare) | Describe: Non chronological Geographical report Link with Geography unit |
English 2 | Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction Percy the Park Keeper: After the storm Percy the Park Keeper: The Secret Path
| Entertain: Narrative Contemporary Fiction Visual literacy Here Comes Frankie | Entertain: Poetry Big Green Crocodile | Socialise: Letter writing The Jolly Postman | Recount: Indirect Biography History link (significant people) | TBC |
Maths | Number: counting within 100 Number: comparison, wholes and parts Number: place value (0 to 5) Geometry: shape | Number: place value (0 to 10) Number: addition Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10
| Number: addition and subtraction facts within 10 Number: place value (0 to 20) Number: multiples of 10 to 100 | Number: place value (20 to 100) Number: multiplication (unitising) | Measurement: money Measurement: length and height Measurement: weight and volume | Measurement: time Geometry: position and direction Number: fractions |
Maths | Number: place value (within 10) Number: addition and subtraction (within 10) | Number: addition and subtraction (within 10) Geometry: shape Number: place value (within 20)
| Number: addition and subtraction (within 20) Number: place value (within 50) | Number: place value (within 50) Measurement: length and height Measurement: weight and volume |
| Number: place value (within 100)
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Science | Animals, incl humans Seasonal Changes | Everyday materials | My Body
Seasonal Changes
| Climate Change and Sustainability (Geography/Inter-disciplinary links) | Seasonal Changes | Plants |
History |
| People Who Changed our World Rosa Parks (BHM) Millicent Fawcett Malala Yousafzai (BHM) | How much have toys and games changed over time?
Continuity and change enquiry
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| Why are the journeys of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta remembered?
Significance enquiry
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Geography | Mapping our Area- Local Area study |
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| The UK – countries, capitals, seas, seasons, weather, settlements |
| Comparative Study- London & Nairobi |
Computing | Computing and Networks Technology around us | Creating Media Digital Painting
| Programming A Moving a Robot
| Data and Information Grouping Data | Creating Media Digital Writing | Programming B Programming animations |
Design and Technology | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers Project: Moving picture | Mechanisms Sliders and Levers Project: moving Christmas card | Structures Freestanding Structures Project: Prop from story book
| Structures Freestanding Structures Project: Model playground | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit salad | Food Preparing fruit and vegetables Project: Fruit smoothie |
Music | Introducing Beat How can we make friends when we sing together?
| Adding Rhythm and Pitch How does music tell stories about the past?
| Introducing Tempo and Dynamics How Does Music Make the world a Better Place? | Combining pulse, rhythm and pitch How does Music Help us to Understand our Neighbours? | Having fun with Improvisation What Songs Can We Sing to Get Us Through the Day? | Explore sound and create a story How does Music Teach Us About Looking After Our Planet? |
Art | Drawing Mark making with range of materials Make own tools Create and use different surface Make controlled drawing Use imagination to draw Key Artist: Lynley Dodd | Painting Use of thick/thin paint Brush strokes Respond to stories using colour Key artist: Jasper Johns
| Printmaking Direct printmaking Negative stencils Combine techniques –layered printed image Clay slab relief Collograph block
| Collage Tear, overlap, stick Identify hot/cold colours Contrasting materials Key artists: Patrick Heron Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long | Textiles Investigate weaving Embellish fabric Fabric resist technique Wrapping and knotting technique | 3-D/Sculpture Pattern and line Working with clay Use a story as starting point Clay balls and coils Plaster cast mould Key artists: Andy Goldsworthy Richard Long |
PSHE/ safeguarding
| Physical & Mental Health | Keeping Safe | Relationships: Friends & Family | Respectful & safe Relationships | Living in the Wider World: Financial Literacy | Health & Wellbeing: Ourselves- Growing & Changing |
RE | What does it mean to belong to a faith community? | Who is a Christian and what do they believe? (part 1)
| Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? (part 1) | How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Part 1) | What makes some places sacred?
| What makes some places sacred?
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PE | Introduction to Invasion Games
| Introduction to Invasion Games
| Gymnastics | Athletics | Cricket | Tennis |
School Events | Class Charters Black History Month | Anti Bullying Week Children in Need Winter Festivals
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| Red Nose Day World Book Day |
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